The MegaAcceptability dataset
Authors: Ellise Moon and Aaron Steven White
Contact: ellise.moon@rochester.edu, aaron.white@rochester.edu
Version: 1.1
Release date: June 15, 2020
Overview
The MegaOrientation dataset consists of ordinal acceptability judgments for 898 clause-embedding verbs of English with a variety of nonfinite subordinate clause structures containing a temporal adverb. See the following paper for a detailed description of the dataset.
Moon, E. & A.S. White. 2020. The source of nonfinite temporal interpretation. To appear in the Proceedings of the 50th annual meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society.
If you make use of this dataset in a presentation or publication, we ask that you please cite this paper.
Version history
1.0: first public release, 26 October 2019 1.1: filters and reruns lists cotaining sentences that contained incorrectly inflected irregular verbs in v1.0, 15 June 2020
Description
| Column | Description | Values |
|---|---|---|
| list | integer identifier for list participant was responding to | 0…91 |
| participant | anonymous integer identifier for participant that provided the response | 0…861 |
| verb | clause-embedding verb found in the item | see paper |
| frame | clausal complement found in the item | NP was _ed to VP[+eventive],NP was _ed to VP[-eventive],NP _ed VPing,NP _ed to VP[-eventive],NP _ed to VP[+eventive] |
| orientation | matrix tense found in the item | future, past |
| sentence | sentence that was judged | see paper |
| response | ordinal scale acceptability response | 1…7 |